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Researchers at Duke University have devised a laser which can potentially detect cancerous moles. This new technique could aid doctors in better diagnosing and treating malignant melanomas, the ...

Laser Technique Diagnoses Skin Cancer

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In case of emergency, remove bra. No, really. The new Emergency Bra (or EBbra) is designed to enhance cleavage and save lives. At first glance, this may seem like an amusing garment, but it ...

The Emergency Bra that Doubles as a Face Mask

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In yet another example of how iPhones are fast becoming a daily staple for monitoring our health, German based FotoFinder has launched a device and app that can potentially diagnose the deadliest ...

The iPhone Device that Can Detect Cancer

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Those people who suffer from severe and debilitating migraines will be pleased to hear that new relief is one step nearer thanks to NuPathe's Zelrix Patch. With the positive results achieved ...

Patch May Deliver Relief for Migraines

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Taking your blood pressure can now be as easy as picking up your phone. Withings, the company that brought us the WiFi body scale, has just launched the world's first iPhone blood pressure ...

New iPhone Connected Blood Pressure Monitor

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Scientists have developed a pill that could significantly affect the treatment and prognosis for those suffering from malignant melanomas, the most aggressive and deadliest form of skin ...

New Pill to Treat Skin Cancer

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The thought of a double chin can cause many a moment of paranoia when looking in the mirror, especially after the indulgence of the recent holiday. The only way to really get rid of that double ...

New Injection to Permanently Eliminate a Double Chin

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A battery powered thermometer designed to be used daily by diabetics as a home diagnostic tool is helping to cut down on ulcers and infections in diabetics that often lead to amputations. The ...

Handheld Thermometer to Help Diabetics

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Scientists in Hong Kong believe they have found a safe and non-invasive alternative to diagnosing Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) in a fetus through a DNA blood test. Babies born with Down syndrome ...

DNA Test to Diagnose Down Syndrome Babies in Expectant Mothers

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A dog really is a man’s best friend, or in this case, a woman’s. Swedish scientists have studied how dogs are able to, quite literally, sniff out cancer and have developed an extra sensitive ...

Sensitive Cancer-Sniffing Electronic Nose

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A new highly sensitive blood test has been devised by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern medical Center in Dallas. Even on an otherwise healthy person, with no apparent ...

New Sensitive Blood Test to Predict Heart Disease

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According to the American Heart Association there are over 74 million Americans suffering from hypertension, killing 56,541 people in 2006 alone. One of the biggest recommendations for sufferers ...

New Innovative Computer Mouse That Also Checks Your Blood Pressure

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A research team at Harvard Medical School believes they have discovered the holy grail of anti-aging by successfully reversing the aging process in mice. In our never-ending quest to fight the ...

Anti-Aging Process Successful in Mice

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German scientists have developed a wound dressing that alerts the wearer to an infection without having to remove it. The scientists at the Fraunhofer Research Institute for Modular Solid State ...

Color Changing Bandage That Shows if Infection is Present

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Whether you call it seasonal affective disorder (SAD), the winter blues or light deprivation, now is the time of year that sufferers begin to feel the symptoms creeping in, peaking in January and ...

Light Therapy for the Winter Blues

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It may not have been good news for Superman but Kryptonite is proving a success with cardiac patients undergoing open-heart surgeries. Open-heart surgery normally involves cutting through the ...

Kryptonite Helping Heart Patients Heal Faster

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Scientists at the University of Toronto have discovered a link between nitroglycerin, the chemical that also makes dynamite, and improvements in treating osteoporosis. According to the National ...

Dynamite Cream to Treat Osteoporosis

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The British-based Meningitis Trust has released the world's first iPhone app to help people recognize the specific signs and symptoms of the disease. The Trust is urging all users of iPhones, ...

The Free iPhone App that Could Save Lives

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A blood test is being developed by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine that could detect an ectopic pregnancy in the early stages. This blood test could potentially ...

Blood Test Being Developed to Diagnose Ectopic Pregnancy Early

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A University of Manchester (UK) professor has designed a revolutionary portable breast scanner that can soon let women take breast exams themselves in the comfort and privacy of their own ...

Portable Breast Scanner to Allow Women to Test Themselves at Home

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Have you ever dreamed of a world where cavities could be magically repaired, without drilling and Novocain? Someday, in the not too distant future, a tooth regeneration gel could replace some ...

A Gel That Could Someday Replace Fillings

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It's hard for doctors to tell their patients what percentage they have for a successful Invitro-Fertilization (IVF) treatment. So much depends on the age and health of the patient, as well as the ...

Breakthrough in IVF Treatment with New Test

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Imagine standing in front of the mirror in the morning and not only seeing your reflection but a run-down of your vital statistics too. Thanks to new technology, monitoring your health using this ...

MIT Developing Health Monitoring Mirror

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With the colder weather setting in and flu season approaching it's time to look at preventing the spread of germs that often take over a workplace. An often overlooked source of germs is your ...

Protect Your Keyboard This Flu Season with the Germ Genie

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It was over 150 years ago that French chemist Charles Frederic Gerhardt first prepared aceylsalicylic acid, which was to eventually become the staple of medicine cabinets everywhere and more ...

High Dose Aspirin Shot to Relieve Migraines

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Diabetics can now take advantage of a multitude of apps and devices available for download to help them manage their condition on the move. Emerging technologies are allowing diabetics to ...

iBGStar Plug-in Glucose Monitor for iPhone and iPod touch

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After 40 years of trying to grow liver cells in a laboratory, scientists from Cambridge University believe that they have finally succeeded, opening up a whole new arena for future treatment ...

British Scientists Able to Create Liver Cells From Skin

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Scientists in the United Kingdom have devised a new ultra-rapid test that is sensitive enough to identify all strains of tuberculosis (TB) in just an hour. TB is a chronic bacterial infection ...

New Hopes For a TB Test That Takes Only an Hour

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Preeclampsia is a condition in which a pregnant woman develops high blood pressure and increased protein in the urine. It can be a life-threatening condition if not identified early and can lead ...

Blood Test to Predict Preeclampsia Early in Pregnancy

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Many couples struggling with infertility, or those just tracking ovulation to calculate their most fertile days, are familiar with the multitude of charts to help track your cycle. Yet, along ...

Underarm Fertility Monitor

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The smartphone just got smarter. Dr. Peter Bentley from University College London (UCL) has come up with a genius way of listening to and recording your heart beat from your iPhone with the ...

The iPhone App That Turns Your Phone Into a Stethoscope

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Chemotherapy is known for taking a drastic toll on the body, with symptoms such as nausea, fatigue, exhaustion and a lowered immune system being just a few of the side effects, yet it is currently ...

“Cluster Bomb” to Target Cancer Cells

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For those people suffering from cardiomyopathy, or any form of moderate heart failure, there may soon be a device able to take over some of the hard work their hearts are put ...

C-Pulse Could Soon Be Used to Aid Patients with Cardiomyopathy

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According to the American Pregnancy Association there are as many as six million women a year dealing with the emotional roller coaster of infertility. Many of these women turn to fertility ...

DHEA Supplement Could Help Women on Fertility Treatment

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It is estimated that approximately one million Americans receive medical treatment each year for shingles, a condition that can be both painful and debilitating and potentially lead to ...

Relief On the Way for Shingles Sufferers

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Scientists at the University of California-San Diego (UCSD) Jacobs School of Engineering and researchers at GlySens, Inc., have revealed a device that marks an important breakthrough in monitoring ...

An Implantable Glucose Monitor

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Women suffering from uterine fibroids may soon be able to choose a non-surgical treatment. The conventional treatment for sever fibroids is laproscopic surgery. Uterine fibroids are benign ...

Non-Surgical Treatment Option for Uterine Fibroids

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Thanks to scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, getting your annual flu shot could be as easy as a trip to your mail box or local pharmacy. After that it would be ...

A Possible End to The Influenza Shot

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There's nothing more traumatic than being hooked up to beeping monitors, listening to every recorded beat, or being awakened for a nurse to check your vitals. Now scientists at the University ...

Sensors That Measure Heart Beat From 3 Feet Away

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Who'd have thought that the same gas that puts the bubbles in your favorite champagne could be responsible for the newest craze in skin treatment? Dubbed the “Fizzy Facelift” women are opting ...

Carboxytherapy the Latest Trend in Non-Surgical Skin Treatment

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Researchers at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas have discovered a chemical compound that helps protect new brain cells while they develop into maturity. Their ...

Alzheimer's Treatment May Get Boost From Chemical That Helps Brain Grow

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According to the National Cancer Institute, it is estimated that there will be 36,800 deaths from pancreatic cancer, 39,840 deaths due to breast cancer and 5,370 deaths from oral cancer in the ...

Saliva Test to Predict Cancers

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It's so common it even has a name – Odontophobia, or dental phobia. It is estimated that at least 15 percent of adults have a severe fear of the dentist and will stay away from the dreaded ...

Sound Waves to Help with Chronic Fear of the Dentist

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It's a question asked daily of doctors – how long do I have left to have a baby? Finally, women may be be able to find out for themselves, using a simple blood test. A kit might be available in as ...

Test to Predict what Age Women will Hit Menopause

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Swiss scientists believe they have found a treatment for the millions of people suffering from allergic asthma, including all the side effects like itchy, watery eyes, eczema, hay fever and ...

A New Allergy Shot to Help Sufferers

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A new device called the Penumbra System is currently saving lives of stroke victims in Canada. In simple terms, it has the ability to suck a blood clot from the vessels in the brain, reversing the ...

Brain Vacuum to Help Stroke Victims

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The World Health Organization estimates that there are 220 million people worldwide with diabetes. Two researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are developing a new method ...

A “Tattoo” to Help Diabetics Read Glucose Levels

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Surgeons at the Cathedral Eye Clinic in Belfast, Ireland, have performed groundbreaking eye surgery to save the sight of a woman suffering from glaucoma. Mary McCall, 66, from Belfast, is the ...

iStent Implant Saves Sight

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Scientists believe they have found a way to fight melanoma, using an immune therapy treatment which can greatly increase the chances of surviving this deadliest form of skin cancer. The ...

New Drug to Treat Melanoma Significantly Increases Survival Rate

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As we are all aware, early detection is the key to beating cancer. Not only does early detection save lives but it can give the patient a wider range of treatment options. The American Cancer ...

Blood Test to Detect Cancer up to Five Years Earlier